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Patented Apr. 8, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL MAXIM, OF WAYNE, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO NORRIS KENDALL LINCOLN AND ELLIS L. LINCOLN, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

BOSOM-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,424, dated April 8, 1884.

Application filed November 21, 1853. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL MAXIM, of ayne, in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine, have invented a new and Improved Bosom-Board, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved ironing-board for holding the bosom and collar band of a shirt stretched while ironing them.

My invention relates to that class of ironingboards which are employed for holding shirtbosoms while being ironed, and which for this purpose have a projection to go through the neck and a clamping device to hold the bottom part of the shirt.

My invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of this clamping device, as will be hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front view of my improved ironing-board, showing a shirt held on the same. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a rear view of the same.

The board A is provided at its upper end with a projection, 13, the side edges of which are inclined. A screw-eye, O, is secured on the upper edge of the projection B, and is used for hanging the board. The lower ends of the side edges of the board are recessed, and to the recessed parts the ends of a U- shaped frame, D, are pivoted. To the upper surface of the cross' piece of the frame D. a wooden strip, E, is fastened, the upper edge of which is provided withgrooves, the bottoms of which are beveled downward from the middle toward the ends. On the middle of the said strip E the middle of a Ushaped spring, F, is fastened. A roller, G, is held between the ends of the spring F,and headed pins G are passed through longitudinal slots, H, in the shanks of the frame D, through apertures in ends of the spring F, and into the ends of roller G. A strip, J, is secured to the bottom edge of the board, which strip is provided with a longitudinal groove, J, in its bottom edge. A covering, K, of fabric is secured to the front and side edges of the board, and also to the upper part of the back, to form a yielding surface on which the bosom and back can be ironed. The frame D is swung upward'and the board is placed into the shirt, the projection B passing through the collaropening. The bottom part of the shirt is passed between the strips J and the roller G, and the frame D is swung down, whereby the bottom part of the shirt will be clamped between the strip J and the roller G, the latter yielding, whereby tearing of the shirt is pre vented and the bosom of the shirt will be drawn taut on the board.

I am aware that a roller hung to swinging spring-bars has been used at the bottom of an ironing-board, as in Patents No. 177,093 and N 0. 287,329, and I do not claim this, broadly.

' Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with the bosom-board, of the swinging U-shaped frame D, hinged or pivoted thereto, the cross-bar E, fixed to the bottom of the U-shaped frame, the Ushapcd spring F, the roller G, journaled in the U- shaped spring, and guides for controlling the roller in its yielding movement in the swinging frame, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the bosom-board, of the slotted and swinging U-shaped frame D, provided with slots, the cross-bar E, made thickest in the middle, the U-shaped spring F, fastened at its middle to the cross-bar E, the roller G, journaled in the U shaped spring,

and the headed pins G, forming the journals of the roller and extending through the slots of the swinging frame to guide the roller in its yielding motion, as described.

\ SAMUEL MAXIM.

W'itnesses: CHAS. H. BARKER, Jn, Jno. M. BENJAMIN. 

